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Trabzonspor Divan Başkanı Ali Özbak’ın kitabında otuzlu yaşlarındaki bir fotoğrafı var rahmetli babam Avukat Ahmet Rıza Kulaçoğlu’nun, Trabzonspor kuruluş kongresinde divan başkanlığı yaparken. O yüzden, biz dört kardeşiz derim hep: Neslihan, Hakan, Trabzonspor, Gürhan. Trabzonspor kurulduğunda küçüktüm, hatırlayamadığım tek önemli kilometre taşıdır “Kuruluş”, Trabzonspor tarihinde.

Dünya tatlısı, beyefendi amcam Ergin Kulaçoğlu, Efsane Başkan Şamil Ekinci ve arkadaşları ile birlikte Anadolu İhtilali’ni gerçekleştirip şampiyonlukları Trabzon’a getirirken kardeşim Gürhan küçük bir çocuktu, o da bazı kupaları hatırlayamıyor. Benden sekiz yaş küçük olduğu için onu bir başka sevdim, “Allah’ım benim ömrümden al ona ver” diye dua ettim hep.

Sonra ben baba oldum, oğlum Kuzey Cem dünyaya geldi, Trabzonspor’un şampiyonluk göremediği uzun yıllar içinde. Trabzonspor’da yöneticilik yapmış, Trabzon dışında yaşamamış bazı arkadaşlarımızın çocuklarının bile İstanbul takımlarının taraftarı olduğu bir çağda, Ankara’da doğup büyümesine hem de büyükbabası gibi maç izlemekten pek hoşlanmamasına rağmen koyu bir Trabzonsporlu oldu. Kendisine müteşekkirim.

Kardeşim ve oğlum için beslediğim sevgiler o kadar benzerdi ki, sık sık karıştırıp birine diğerinin ismiyle hitap ettiğim oluyordu. Temelde ikisi de Trabzonspor’du benim için; babam gibi, amcam gibi.

Şimdi genç taraftarlarımız sanmasın ki, seçkinci Trabzonsporlu bir ailedir bizimkisi. Trabzonspor’un orijininden gelip de Derin Trabzonspor’a karşı duruştu aksine pozisyonumuz. Trabzonspor’un kapalı kapılar ardından yönetilmesine itiraz ettik her zaman. Halkın kurumu olarak gördük Trabzonspor’u. O nedenle Atay Aktuğ’un “100 bin Üye” projesine heyecanla yaklaştım. Siyaset deyince milletten söz edip Trabzonspor söz konusu olduğunda dar ve kapalı bir sistemi korumaya çalışan büyüklerimizle çatıştım.

31 Aralık 2000 günü Trabzonspor baskıcı bir rejimden kurtulup bazı kulüplerin bugün düştüğü sevimsiz durumun önü alınırken tehditlere kulak asmayan birkaç iyi adamdık, Özkan Sümer, Hayrettin Hacısalihoğlu, Serdar Bali ve Mehmet Tan ile birlikte. Kuruluş’u olmasa da Kurtuluş’u yaşamış oldum böylece. Çünkü diyorduk ki “Trabzonspor’un yeniden şampiyon olması elbette çok önemlidir, ancak en önemlisi Trabzonspor’un Türk Futbolu’nda iyi örnek teşkil etmeyi sürdürmesidir.”

Yani bazıları gibi “Kazanmak için her yol mubahtır” şeklinde basit bir yaşam pratiğimiz değil, onurlu bir varoluş felsefemiz vardı. Çok gayret gösterildi, çok yükler taşındı, çok isimler yoruldu; lâkin şükürler olsun ki 2010-11 sezonu geldi. Trabzonspor aynı anda hem şampiyon hem de örnek oldu bu ülkede. Bunun gururu hepimizindi.

Trabzonspor bugün 45 yaşında. Nice temiz yıllara sevgili kardeşim. Senin pırıl pırıl yüzünle nasıl gurur duyduğumu anlatmaya kelimeler yetmez. Allah benim ömrümden alsın sana versin. Bu kirli düzene, bu şikeci koalisyona inat, sen çok yaşa… 

Hakan Kulaçoğlu

To FIFA and UEFA :

Dear Sir or Madam;

The Chronological Lay Out of the Match Fixing Case in Turkey

1.    03.07.2011-Match Fixing Operation Started: Board members, players, managers of various clubs were arrested by Turkish police.

2.    13.07.2011-First Confession about Matxh Fixing: İstanbul BB’s player Ibrahin Akın confessed at prosecuting attorney’s office alongside his solicitors that he took $100,000.00 from Fenerbahce FC for not scoring against them.

3.    15.08.2011-First Ethical Committee Report sent to Turkish FF: Fenerbahce FC, Sivasspor FC, and Mersin İdmanyurdu FC were found guilty for match fixing offence.

4.    22.08.2011-Pierre Cornu arrived at Turkey: UEFA sent inspector Pierre Cornu to Turkey to talk to Turkish FF and the prosecuting attorney Mehmet Berk.

5.    24.08.2011-Trabzonspor FC replaced Fenerbahce FC in Champions League: After TFF withdrawn Fenerbahce FC from Champions Leauge, UEFA invited Trabzonspor FC to the competition.

6.    25.08.2011-Appeals Body rejected Fenerbahce’s request against Turkish FF’s decision that withdrawn Fenerbahce FC from Champions League.

7.    01.09.2011-Fenerbahce FC applied CAS: Fenerbahce FC applied CAS to stop the Champions League withdrawn decision of Turkish FF and sued TFF and UEFA for 45 million Euros for this decision.

8.    09.09.2011-CAS decided against Fenerbahce FC: CAS refused Fenerbahce FC’s application on stopping the decision of TFF that withdrawn them from Champions League.

9.    24.11.2011-First Political Intervention: Turkish Parliament changed Sports Law (Law No: 6222) that came in to effect on 14.04.2011 and reduced all sentences that penalises crimes in sport.

10.  26.01.2012-Turkish FF held a general metting with the clubs to change the Discipline code 58 in order to save clubs from relegation those were involved in match fixing but the clubs voted against the change.

11.  09.02.2012-Mehmet Ali Aydınlar’s Confession: Mr. Aydınlar told on a TV programme that he did not want to be the president who relegated Fenerbahce FC and that is why he postponed the decision and tried to find a way to save Fenerbehce FC that he is a member of. He added that he was so sure of Fenerbahce FC’s guiltiness that if they win the case at CAS he would pay the 45 million euros they asked for.

12.  27.02.2012-New President elected for TFF: Turkish FF and the discipline bodies were changed as a result of resignation of Mehmet Ali Aydınlar (ex-president of TFF) and the board members.

13.  22.03.2012-UEFA congress in Istanbul: Mr. Michel Platini told to press that it is not possible to seperate clubs from individuals on match fixing offences after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered him this suggestion. In another press conference Mr. Gianni Infantino told that Referees being banned for life, not because they helped fix matches but because they accepted being contacted to help fix matches and added 58th article of Disciplinary Code is the UEFA’s must have code and changing of this code by national federations can not be accepted and will not be allowed by UEFA.

14.  26.04.2012-Fenerbahce FC withdrawn the case against TFF and UEFA at CAS.

15.  30.04.2012-TFF changed the Discipline Code 58: TFF changed the discipline code 58 as well as some other codes in order to prevent clubs from relegation despite the fact that clubs rejected this change at the last meeting.

16.  02.05.2012-Second Ethical Committee report was revealed: Despite being established after political intervention the second committee also found Fenerbahce FC guilty of match fixing in 3 matches. Two vice president of Fenerbahce FC (İlhan Ekşioğlu and Şekip Mosturoğlu) were found guilty along side players, agents, managers of various clubs.

17.  06.05.2012-PFDK (Professional Football Discipline Committee) announced the SCANDAL decision: Despite barring Fenerbahce FC vice presidents, club members, some other team players (played against Fenerbahce FC) that Fenerbahce FC fixed matches with PFDK invented a solution to prevent clubs from relegation; Match Fixing was not reflected on to the pitch!!!

18.  09.05.2012-Political Intervention of Turkish Prime Minister: Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told during a press statement that he was beyond an ordinary supporter and he was a member of Fenerbahce FC congrees. He also repeated his idea of seperating clubs from individuals despite being rejected by Platini in March.

19.  02.07.2012-Court’s decision on match fixing case: The Judce (Mehmet Ekinci) announced his verdict on match fixing and found several people guilty from different clubs. Some of those people and their sentences are as below:.

·         Aziz Yıldırım (President of Fenerbahçe FC) - Match-fixing at 7 matches : Imprisonment of 6 years and 3 months.

·         Şekip Mosturoğlu (Vice President of Fenerbahçe FC) - Match-fixing at 3 matches : Imprisonment of 3 years 1 month and 14 days.

·         İlhan Ekşioğlu (Vice President of Fenerbahçe FC) - Match-fixing at 5 matches : Imprisonment of 4 years and 4 months

·         Tamer Yelkovan (Chief Financial Officer of Fenerbahçe FC) - Match-fixing at 3 matches and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 2 years 9 months.

·         Mecnun Odyakmaz (Sivas FC-President) - 1 year and 6 months and 22 days for match fixing in Fenerbahce FC match against Sivasspor FC.

·         Bülent Uygun (Eskişehir FC-manager) – 11 months 7 days imprisinmont due to getting bribe from Fenerbahce FC regarding Eskişehir FC’s match against Trabzonspor FC.on 22.04.2011.

·         İbrahim Akın ( İstanbul BB player) – 1 year 6 months and 22 days for match fixing for benefit of Fenerbahce FC at the match that his team lost 2-0 on 01.05.2011.

·         Korcan Çelikay (Sivasspor FC goal keper) – 1 year and 3 months imprisonment for fixing match for benefit of Fenerbahce FC at the match that his team lost 4-3 at the last game of the season on 22.05.2011.

·         Mehmet Yıldız (Sivasspor FC player) - 1 year and 3 months imprisonment for fixing match for benefit of Fenerbahce FC at the match that his team lost 4-3 at the last game of the season on 22.05.2011.

20.  28.07.2012 Finally, Aziz Yıldırım ( President of Fenerbahce FC ) told on a press statement that, if he committed the match fixing crime he he did it for Fenerbahce FC, not for himself.

This chronological lay out of the match fixing clearly proves the existance of match fixing activities during the 2010-2011 season at Turkish Super League. Ethical Committees, Professional Football Discipline Committee and the court’s verdict all aggree on one decision; Fenerbahçe FC were involved in several match fixing activities that led them to win the Championship in 2010-2011 season.

Therefore, we request UEFA and FIFA to give an end to this chaos by following the disciplinary regulation as soon as possible.

Sincerely;

Ender Kuyumcu

Adresler:

info@uefa.com, contact@uefa.com, giancarlo.abete@uefa.ch, gianni.infantino@uefa.ch, michel.platini@uefa.ch, contact@fifa.org,media@fifa.org, datainfo@fifa.org, webinfo@fifa.org, discipline@uefa.ch

alasdair.bell@uefa.ch

FIFA'ya Mektup

To Whom It May Concern,

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing this letter as a football fan seeking JUSTICE for Turkish Football in Match Fixing case and requesting you to follow your procedures and apply FIFA Disciplinary Code Articles 69 and 70 to put an end to this matter.

UEFA sent an inspector to investigate the case after 03.07.2011 and suggested Turkish FF strongly not to send Fenerbahce FC to Champions League in terms of protecting European Football’s reputation, but How about the reputation of Turkish Football?

I would like to remind you that Fenerbahce FC has not been relegated yet to a lower devision despite all solid evidence. The political authorities and Turkish FF have been working hard to save Fenerbahce FC from any sort of penalty and put pressure on UEFA on this case.  They also invented a term ‘Match Fixing had no reflection on to the pictch’

During the process government changed TFF and all Discipline bodies in order to find a way to save match fixers as the previous Ethical Committee report found Fenerbahce FC guilty of match fixing. They managed to change Discipline Code 58 despite all clubs voting against the change.

Mr. Infantino and Mr. Platini told several times that UEFA has ‘Zero Tolerance to Match Fixing’ policy and there is enough evidence to give a verdict on this case. They also said, it is not possible to seperate individuals from their clubs and if TFF does not take the right action, they will get involved and force TFF to do so.

At this point we, as Turkish Fottbal fans, think that it is time FIFA to get involved and the decisions must not be postponed any longer in order to protect the soul of the game.

Finally, please find the list of 11 members of Fenerbahce FC below , those found guilty for match fixing offence in 2010-2011 season and senteced to imprisonment;

Name of person	Position at club	Criminal Court Decision
Aziz Yıldırım	President of Fenerbahçe FC	Match-fixing at 7 matches and establishing and leading a criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 6 years and 3 months; and monetary fine of 950.000Euros
Şekip Mosturoğlu	Vice President of Fenerbahçe FC	Match-fixing at 3 matches and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 3 years 1 month and 14 days; and monetary fine of 55.500Euros
İlhan Ekşioğlu	Vice President of Fenerbahçe FC	Match-fixing at 5 matches and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 4 years and 4 months and 15 days; and monetary fine of 500.000Euros
Aleaddin Yıldırım	Director at Fenerbahçe FC Board	Match-fixing at 1 match and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 2 years 7 months and 15 days; and monetary fine of 75.000Euros.
Ahmet Çelebi	Member of Fenerbahçe FC	Match-fixing at 1 match and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 2 years 7 months.
Ali Kıratlı	Member of Fenerbahçe FC	Match-fixing at 1 match and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 3 years 1 month and 14 days; and monetary fine of 55.500Euros.
Bülent İbrahim İşçen	Member of Fenerbahçe FC	Match-fixing at 3 matches and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 3 years 7 months and 3 days; and monetary fine of 52.000Euros.
Tamer Yelkovan	Chief Financial Officer of Fenerbahçe FC	Match-fixing at 3 matches and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 2 years 9 months; and monetary fine of 27.700Euros.
Sami Dinç	Legal Advisor of Fenerbahçe FC	Match-fixing at 3 matches and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 3 years 1 month and 14 days; and monetary fine of 55.500Euros.
Cemil Turan	Sportive Director of Fenerbahçe FC	Match-fixing at 1 match and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 2 years 2 months and 7 days; and monetary fine of 8.600Euros.
Samet Güzel	Translator of Fenerbahçe FC	Match-fixing at 1 match and member of criminal organisation for match-fixing: Imprisonment of 1 year and 15 days; and monetary fine of 2.500Euros.

Sincerely,

Ender Kuyumcu

Mail Adresleri : contact@fifa.org,media@fifa.org, datainfo@fifa.org, webinfo@fifa.org

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Karar öncesi UEFA Disiplin Komitesine Son Mektup

To the UEFA Discipline Committee Members,

Dear Sir/Madam,

You are about to decide whether the Champions League is a League that contains Champions and Elite Teams or CRIMINAL ORGANISATIONS like Fenerbahce FC whose 11 members were sentenced by Turkish Courts. They   have political and monetary power behind them which kept them un-punished in Turkey so far but with your help this can change.

All we ask from you is allowing teams to have a chance who PLAY this game FAİR against teams like Fenerbahce FC that turns this game in to 

a CORRUPTED ORGANISATION.

As Mr. Infantino said, “Referees being banned for life, not because they helped fix matches but because they accepted being contacted to help fix matches”

Let alone allowing a team to compete in the Champions League whose president, vice-president and lots of members were sentenced by courts for match

fixing offence.

Another statement made by Mr. Platini was that; 'Its is not possible to seperate clubs from individuals esspecially if these individuals are board members' and

Mr. Platini also said several times that there is enough evidence to keep Fenerbahce FC out of Champions League.

We believe in your strong intention fighting against match fixing crime. Therefore we believe that, the justice and fair-play will be preserved by UEFA. We are finishing our words with Mr. Infantino’s statements:

“Once the TFF has made a decision we’ll be keeping a close eye on this affair, whether the right decisions have been taken or not”

Yours Truly,

Ender Kuyumcu

Adresler:

info@uefa.com, contact@uefa.com, giancarlo.abete@uefa.ch, gianni.infantino@uefa.ch, michel.platini@uefa.ch, contact@fifa.org,media@fifa.org, datainfo@fifa.org, webinfo@fifa.org, discipline@uefa.ch

alasdair.bell@uefa.ch